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Gebundene Ausgabe: 317 Seiten
Verlag: Serpent's Tail; Auflage: New Ed (15. Juni 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1852428082
ISBN-13: 978-1852428082
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,4 x 2,8 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 208.765 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
- Nr. 48 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Geschichte & Kritik > Karibik & Lateinamerika

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From Cuban novelist Arenas (The Doorman, 1991, etc.), who, ill with AIDS, committed suicide in 1990 shortly after completing this book: an extraordinarily powerful autobiography that's both a poignant personal memoir and a damning political indictment of the Castro regime and its supporters. The only child of a mother whose lover deserted her, Arenas was raised in his peasant grandparents' home. Living in the countryside (whose superstitions and rituals the author vividly evokes here), the large family barely grew enough to feed themselves. As a teenager, Arenas worked in a factory, but, bored, he joined Castro's rebels, whose battles against Batista turned out to be more propaganda than reality--the real killing began, Arenas says, once Castro was in power. Selected for further education, he was sent for accountant's training in a remote camp where Marxist- Leninist texts and dogma were taught by Communists. By now, Arenas, disenchanted with Castro's totalitarian regime, had begun to write. His work soon attracted attention and he moved to Havana, where he wrote two novels that, though unpublished, won prestigious awards. Shortly afterward, the harassment began that would lead to the smuggling abroad of his writings, which were published overseas to critical acclaim; to brutal imprisonment and torture; and, finally, to exile with the Mariel boatlift. A homosexual--Arenas is very frank here about his experiences and feelings--and political dissident, the author had been doubly vulnerable in a state where homosexuals were routinely imprisoned. Exile proved little better: New York was ``soulless,'' and for ``Cubans who have suffered persecution for twenty years in that terrible world, there is really no solace anywhere.'' Unable to ``write and to struggle for the freedom of Cuba,'' Arenas said in a letter intended for posthumous publication, ``I am ending my life.'' A last testament that resonates with passion for the freedom of the human spirit and for the author's beloved Cuba: a distinguished addition to the literature of dissent and exile. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

From Library Journal

This celebrated Cuban writer ( The Doorman , LJ 5/15/91; Singing from the Well , LJ 7/87), a victim of AIDS, committed suicide in New York in 1990. His autobiographical memoir is a fascinating and frightening tale of growing up extremely poor in rural Cuba, of varied personal and political relationships, of rebelliousness, homosexuality, suppression, and persecution. In the picaresque tradition, the narrative is earthy and at times raw; the frequent sexual escapades are presumably true accounts. The description of life in Havana's El Morro prison makes the skin crawl. As an author who was not only antiregime but also gay, Arenas was compelled to smuggle his work abroad for publication. More than a personal story, this memoir is an insightful analysis of the idiosyncrasies of an authoritarian regime. Recommended for literature collections.
- Charles E. Perry, East Central Univ., Ada, Okla.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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This is one of the best pictures of Cuba's reality. 5. Mai 1999

Von Oscar L. Vazquez

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I really enjoyed this book. As I said before, Reinaldo Arena described in a very Cuban way the reality of the gay community in pre-revolutionary time, the persecution and the double repression he had to suffer because his duality as a gay and as an independent writer censored by the Castro machinery.

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Gripping, realistic account of Castro's Cuba 9. September 1999

Von Tere

I read this book a few years ago, and every now and then I read it again. This is one amazing book, by one of the best Cuabn writers since Lezama Lima. Arenas' accounts of being both homosexual and a dissident in Castro's Cuba is both realistic and frightening, especially when one takes into account that what happened to him has happened, and continues to happen, to many in Cuba. I am especially drawn to his experiences and feelings about Castro and La Revolución in its early days, because he express so well what many Cubans felt, from their hope to their ultimate disillusionment. Arenas' biggest contirbution to Cuban culture, I believe, is his ability to put into vivid, heart-wrenching words what millions of Cubans felt, and continue to feel even today, as Castro's regime continues to destroy all that is good and beautiful about Cuba.

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To damn the demons of tragedy 12. Juni 1999

Von Sobek721@aol.com

Despite the horrors revealed in this mini-autobiography the true story must never be lost. Reinaldo Arenas never surrendered to the demons of self-pity and delusion, despite the hell he encountered on the road to Calvary. What a journey! What a man!